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The Big Swim by Tom Scott

Can you remember the ferryman who gave a rowing boat service between the Quay and the Shipwrights Arms on the Lower Hamworthy side and Burdens and Piplers on the Poole side? The fee was 1 penny per trip per person. My mother would use the ferry boat some days when she’d been shopping in the [...]

April 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

Too Small For My Boots by Tom Scott

Winter, 1941. The snow was gradually turning to slush. The war was in its third year and, being an eleven year old boy, I found it all very interesting – especially the tasks we had to fulfil to help with the war effort. After school our duty was to report to gun sites and help [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

Fred and Frank by Tom Scott

How many old Poole-ites remember where Corona Soft Drinks (Thomas and Evans) were situated? You don’t? I’ll tell you. In West Quay Road where Westover Motors now stands – opposite Sunseeker. On one side stood Pender Plating, on the other was Blue Boar Lane. The railway ran down the road from Poole Station, along Nile [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

The Bathroom Suite by Tom Scott

Until he died, my dad would fish or rake for cockles in Poole Harbour, selling his catch to the local pubs. The cockles needed to be fresh, so our tin bath was their haven until sold. However, Friday nights were bath nights so our small kitchen became the bathroom. The salt water was rinsed from [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

Memories of old Poole – THE CANE by Tom Scott

From 1940-1945 my schooling was at Henry Harbin School (now Poole High School). The headmaster then was local historian Mr H P Smith. It was a well run, disciplined school where boys were segregated from girls – meaning no distractions from the opposite sex! Teachers’ tools of punishment were bamboo cane, chalk board rubber, measuring [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Old Poole | 3 comments

A Light Touch by Tom Scott

Here’s another story of how well I was looked after as an apprentice at Bolson’s shipyard. I was asked to work overtime one evening to finish a project. I didn’t mind, but by the time I left work for home it was dark and miserable with rain. Even though I had no lights I decided [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

The Regatta by Tom Scott

I have many happy memories of my time as an apprentice at Bolson’s shipYard, which is now occupied by Sunseeker’s. The annual Regatta particularly stands out. All employees ceased work for the day and were encouraged to enter events like the Greasy Pole, the Dinghy Race, the Flour and Soot Fight and swimming and diving [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Old Poole | Leave a comment

Memories of old Poole by Tom Scott – Two In A Seat

  Let me introduce myself, Tom Scott, born at number one, Battery Cottages, Harbour Road, Lower Hamworthy, about fifty yards from the Broomehill Boundary Stone, which is still in place.  I was educated at Hamworthy First School followed by Henry Harbin at eleven years old.  A five year apprenticeship followed, at local shipyard ‘J Bolson [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Old Poole | 2 comments
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